A Risk Group's Visits to Medical Services: Five Years’Usage of Well-Baby and Medical Clinics by a Group of Children with a1-Antitrypsin Deficiency

Abstract

Visits to medical services during the first 5 years of life for 61 children with .alpha.1ATD (but without liver disease) and 61 demographically similar control children without ATD were studied for frequency, diagnosis, severity of illness/complaint and extent of treatment. No significant differences were found between the ATD and control groups on any of these variables, suggesting no increased sickliness in the ATD-group and no evidence of increased parental anxiety about the child''s health reflected in medical visits for little or no physical abnormality.